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From “What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman” by Lerita Coleman Brown There is the rest of detachment and withdrawal when the spirit moves into the depths of the region of the Great Silence…Here the Presence of God is sensed as an all pervasive aliveness which materializes into the concreteness of

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From “Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life” by Henri Nouwen with Michael J. Christensen and Rebecca J. Laird Small, seemingly insignificant events, ideas, and life circumstances can become occasions to discern God’s will and calling in your life. Both inner and outer events and circumstances can be read and interpreted as signposts leading to

From “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” by Carol S. Dweck, PhD Aside from hijacking people’s abilities, stereotypes also do damage by making people feel they don’t belong. Many minorities drop out of college and many women drop out of math and science because they just don’t feel they fit in. To find out how

From “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation” by Steven Johnson The pattern of “competition” is an excellent case in point. Every economics textbook will tell you that competition between rival firms leads to innovation in their products and services. But when you look at innovation from the long-zoom perspective, competition turns

From “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner” by Frederick Buechner OH LORD, THE coolness of the river’s touch! The way it mirrored back the clouds as if I bathed in sky. I waded out to where the water reached my neck, my beard outspread, my garments floating free. I let my hands

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From “Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life” by Richard Rohr The second insight about steps and stages is that from your own level of development, you can only stretch yourself to comprehend people just a bit beyond yourself. Some theorists say you cannot stretch more than one step above your own

From “The Language of the Soul: Meeting God in the Longings of Our Hearts” by Jeff Crosby  In the years since first reading The Grand Essentials I’ve worked with Patterson on other writing projects and shared meals with him. In a recent conversation, he conveyed his late-career reflections on Chalmer’s “grand essentials of happiness,” distilling